I'm running Arch Linux and have installed TexLive from their repository. I noticed that I had some configuration files (texmf.cnf and updmap.cfg) that needed to be updated, so I diffed them and updated the relevant sections. In the case of updmap, it was simply adding some kanji font maps to the file.

Then, I thought I should run updmap since I changed the config. I got this:

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TL binaries use their locations to search for their libraries. If you installed TL in /usr/local/texlive, they are in /usr/local/texlive/YEAR/bin/ARCH, and look for their libraries in locations like ../../tlpkg etc. However, your updmap is from the system vendor installation (or maybe you copied it there instead of symlinking), and its location is /usr/bin/, so ../../tlpkg gives the directory where nothing is found.

Add the path to TL2011 binaries in the head of the search path, like export PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/i386-linux:$PATH. Or just symlink the new binaries to /usr/local/bin: usually this directory is searched before /usr/bin.

I don't have a /usr/local/texlive directory... Should I? Arch Linux provides the Arch Build System so you can build from source. Here's the default build script for texlive-core (how the binary installs from the repo by default. No references to /usr/local that I see.
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HendyMar 24 '12 at 17:37

I might be muddying waters since Arch does this differently than the TL default or other distros... I posted on Arch forums as well and will post the answer here if I get it. My apologies if this is a source of confusion.
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HendyMar 24 '12 at 17:41

Well, you can either take the fresh binaries from TL and install them using tlmgr, or patch the build script for Arch linux. I'm afraid in the latter case the question belongs to an Arch linux forum since it covers a specific vendor-related topic.
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BorisMar 24 '12 at 17:43

Using symlinks requires to reset them all when there's a major update of TeX Live (2011->2012, for instance). With the PATH method only that needs to be updated.
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egregMar 24 '12 at 18:11

I'll look into just installing via tlmgr. Out of curiosity... where does the @INC path get defined? Perhaps I can at least try and track down a config that might be out of date and point it to the right place?
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HendyMar 24 '12 at 18:22